As I have said over the years, I am not at all concerned about a federal government shutdown. My worry is that it might open back up again.
A shutdown is an occasional phenomenon wherein hundreds of thousands of government bureaucrats have to stop not working for a few weeks.
Maybe that is why Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell locks up. Like blinking, if you negotiate and just stare, the other side folds and gives you what you want. A shutdown makes us reorganize our financial priorities, and reminds taxpayers that Washington is awful at handling our money. All of this could have been avoided if Washington politicians didn’t have the budgeting skills of an Ole Miss frat boy.
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